The Irish standard., 1887-07-02
IN THE PAPERS.

IN THE PAPERS.
ACCORDING to an English paper th.
Chinese Government has given firm in
Birmingham an order for supply Of sil.
yer and bronze coinage.
In the year last past the alumni of the
University Of Paris numbered nearly IL.
600 last year. OF these, no fewer than
8, 706 were studying for the legal profess
sion, while 1895 were attending the
courses in the school of medicine. Phar-
macy engaged the attention of 1,767 stu
dents, letters of $685. and science 467. The
faculty Of theology is very far from being
as flourishing as it was in the days Of
Abelard. only thirty five young men hav.
ing attended the lectures in this depart
ment In 1885. The female students mum.
bered 167, of whom 1O8 were qualifying
for medical career. while 81 were en-
gagged in literary studies. There were
seven lady scientists, and only one lady
lawyer.
The Scotch universities have been sap.
preached by the musicians Of Scotland
with reference to the granting of degrees
in music. The matter has been under con-
sideration for some time, and there is, it
040POOAVAOA4 esONSNS
to the general wish on the part Of three
out of the four universities One Of the
universities, though possessed of an en-
dowed musical chair, has taken no active
steps in the matter Another having
found that it is empowered to confer hon.
orary degrees in'music, has taken the initia-
tive, and, upon search being made, docu-
ments show precedents for admitting
candidates to examina,i m have, it is said,
been discovered, and it is therefore not
unlikely that the wishes OF the Scotch mu-
sicians will soon be carried cut.
A CORRESPONDENT of Lon Ion paper
sent what he believed TO be correct
translation of the sentence pronounced by
Pontius Plate on Christ. He says that
this curious document was discovered in
A. d. 1880 in the citv of Aquill in the king
dom of Naples, in the course Of a search
made for the discovery of Roman antiqui-
ties and it remained there until it was
found by the commissaries of art in the
French army of Italy. Un to the time Of
the campaign in Southern Italy it was pre-
served in the sacr1sty Of the Csrthusians,
near Naples, where 1t was kept in a box of
ebony. Since then the relic has been kept
in the Chapelo Caserta. The Carthusians
obtaine l, by petition, leave that the plate
ment of the sacrifice which they had made
for the French army
The first salamanders to have come to
this country recently :rrived from Japan.
They resemble the in lolent three-foot cat
fl sh that live in the sluggish waters of the
South, and from which the indolent dark
les cut strips of bait as they need it and
then turn them loose to grow more bait.
Their thick, matted, warty and Shiny skins
suggests Smyrna :ug of subdue1 pattern
in brown and black. They have four legs,
with five toes to the leg, but their legs
don't amount to much for pedestrian pur-
poses and are used as seal uses its flip.
pers The head is shaped like the toe of
medium round shoe, AMI the tail is thick
and wedge shancd The small dull eyes
can be distinguished among the warts by
looking closely. There are two rows of
small, sharp teeth in each jaw. The sala-
manders eat raw beef and seem 10 enjoy
it. 1t is said that thu giant salamander
grows to the size of an sdult crocodile and
the development of the new arrivals will
be watched with great interest.
TIE year 1885 was a notable one in the
history of the Church of England. During
that year "e1, 733 O}O was given by volun-
tarv off rings to Church of England build
ing and restoration. to the endowment Of
benetices, to rar rsonage house and burial
grounds. Between the years 1876 and 1885,
2577 churches h we feen restored, and 819
new churches have been built. From 1882
to 1884 the voluntary contributions for the
maintenance Of Church elementary schools
amounted to 9l.746,321. and provided ao.
commodation for 1878 941 children; while
in the same period the voluntary contri-
~ @1o e11,1 11o
amounted to e461,723. Careful calculations
bring cut tn result that in the quarter Of
century from 1868 to 1884, the voluntary
expenditure of the Church reached the
enormous sum of eS1, ,573 s37. In 1885 the
Church of Englanl Temperance Society
had an income of e5, 1914 Towards the Met
ropolitan Hospital Sunday Fund, between
1873 and 1886, 1924 collections made by the
Church produced the sum Of e3OO, 679, and
443 collections of other bodies produced
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